History from 20 Ants Fine Books, IOBA

New York, NY: Library of America. Fine with no dust jacket. 1995. Hardcover. A 2-volume compilation of journalism related to reporting the events and personalities of World War II. Volumes I and II contain contemporary newspaper and magazine articles, editorial opinions, book excerpts, and radio transcripts to form an orderly view of war reporting. Both volumes … Read more about this item

New York, NY: Library of America. Fine with no dust jacket. 2015. Reprint. Hardcover. This 2-volume set covers September 17, 1787, to August 9, 1788: the year of public and private debate after the Constitutional Convention, mostly held in secret before its proposed Constitution was made public. Federalist vs. anti-Federalist opinions ranged from rational, to ranting, … Read more about this item

Oxford: Oxford University Press. Fine with no dust jacket. 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Lacks the dust jacket. ; This book is primarily about the starts and stops, political manipulation and change, financial travails, cancellations, disappointment, and ultimate success in building an English facility and battery of radio telescopes that revolutionized astronomy. It's a complete story with… Read more about this item

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1893. First American Edition. Hardcover. Overall wear to spine with bumped ends and residue from removal of a library label, wear to corners and edges, small remanant of a laid down library pocket on the rear endpaper, and "Withdrawn" stamps to front pastedown and head of text… Read more about this item

Dublin Ireland: Cuala Press. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1942. Limited/Numbered Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Endpapers are wrinkled where they meet the gutter. Dark speck on front cover. Light, 1/2" long impression at the head edge of the front cover and a similar, very faint impression to the head edge of the back cover. Lower corners… Read more about this item

Anchorage, Alaska.: National Park Service. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 2002. Hardcover. Light wrinkling to front and rear covers at the spine.; A highly-detailed assessment of an archeological excavation of this saloon in Skagway, Alaska. Converted from a hardware store to a saloon in 1898, the site assessment and cataloging of artifacts occurred during excavations in… Read more about this item

No Place Stated: No Publisher Listed.. Fine with no dust jacket. N.D.. Softcover. Bastain's concise account of Admiral David G. Farragut's naval foray up the Mississippi river in 1862 to attack Vicksburg during the American Civil War. The battle itself is detailed, including the ship maneuvers of both sides. The movement up the Mississippi was successful due… Read more about this item

Brooklyn, NY: Mergenthaler Linotype Company. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1954. Hardcover. Roll to the lower half of the spine, yet all board edges are parallel and properly aligned.; This book commemorates the 100th birthday of Ottmar Mergenthaler, inventor of the Linotype, a hot metal typesetting system that cast type in lines or slugs instead of… Read more about this item

Williamsburg, Virginia: Printing Office Of The Williamsburg Foundation. Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1972. Softcover. Written as a tract to inform Delegates to the Continental Congress, the Summary View impressed some Delegates sufficiently that they had it printed as a pamphlet by Clementina Rind, the only woman printer in Williamsburg. In this tract, Jefferson's eloquently expressed… Read more about this item